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My first job ever was at Best Buy. I applied when I was 14 and was turned down for being too young. I reapplied at 15, was almost hired, and then got turned down when they asked to see my non-existent driver’s license. I reapplied on my 16th birthday and was finally hired. Nerd alert.

Everywhere you turn this week at South By Southwest Interactive, there is the feeling of a countdown underway – the countdown to a new way of gaming, a new way of sharing things with your social network, a new way of shopping. No one quite knows how we’ll get there, or what shape it will take, but after sitting through three days of …

If you’ve been trying to keep track of the latest Apple rumor announcements, you’re probably lost in all the delayed iPhone 5 news, miniature MacBook Pros that may or may not be launched and Light Peak ports that work at warp speed. To make things easier, Techland is going to break down what’s been overheard for you to make it easier to …

You may recall that President Obama’s recent State of the Union address contained a fair amount of tech talk, calling for increases in research and development investments, clean energy initiatives, and innovation across the telecommunications sector.

New technology from processor makers Intel and AMD has paved the way for some nice advancements as far as laptop features are concerned. While laptops have generally gotten powerful enough to replace desktop computers for most people, that power has come at the expense of weight, heat and battery life in many instances.

For the most part, Intel’s been left out in the cold when it comes to tablets and smartphones. While the company’s processors are relatively powerful compared to mobile-centric processors from competitors like Qualcomm and Marvell, they aren’t able to eke out nearly as much battery life.

China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer just turned in the fastest performance score in the world: 2.507 petaflops. That’s “more than 40% higher” than the score set by the “Jaguar” supercomputer housed here in the U.S. at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, according to the Wall Street Journal.

This thing is crazy, and maybe in a good way. At Intel’s developers conference today, Dell showed off what appeared to be a netbook at first glance. Then the guy holding it apparently swiveled the 10-inch touchscreen around 180 degrees inside its own frame, closed the computer as one would do with a standard notebook, and …

Intel’s dual-core Atom N550 processor has made its way into netbooks and some of those netbooks are available for purchase now.

Acer has a 10.1-inch Aspire One netbook selling through HSN.com already for just under $400. The netbook sports the 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of new-ish DDR3 memory, which ought to add a little more …

Acer’s got four new netbook models, two of which are now using AMD processors instead of Intel’s Atom chips. The 11.6-inch Aspire One 721 and the 10.1-inch Aspire One 521 both leverage AMD’s Athlon II Neo K125 CPU and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics with 384MB of dedicated memory.

The future-splosion known as Computex is underway in Taipai, Taiwan this week and in the interest of not inundating Techland with post after post about every single tablet, netbook, and other bits of technological wonderment, I thought I’d include everything in a daily roundup for those of you interested in this kind of stuff. …